Hail Mary: Surviving Mothers

In this memoir, Roy is a daughter again, writing a love poem to her mother, under whose shadow she became the writer we know today

- By SHINIE ANTONY

rundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me may not be a sequel to The God of Small Things, but a BTS of sorts; it certainly is, complete with scene references, location, flora and fauna, right down to that moth that landed on hearts. We are back in Ayemenem. There are relatives and family politics, mythologies and backstories, some songs too, but most of all, there is the matriarch. To whom was dedicated